Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) criticized remarks by a U.S. Muslim leader who suggested that the Shuttle Columbia disaster was an act of divine retribution against Israel. In a letter to Eric Erfan Vickers, the executive director of the American Muslim Council, Nadler wrote, “It is unthinkable that any American would take such perverse pleasure in a tragedy.”
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